Elderly Borehamwood pensioners have won back a bus stop to help lighten the load when trudging back from the shops to their homes.

The older residents had grown accustomed to using a hail and ride bus service which used to drop them off outside Oak Farm sheltered housing in Arundel Drive.

Later, however, it was replaced in November with a more conventional service when a bus-stop sprung up further down the road instead.

"It was alright for the pensioners going down into Borehamwood, but coming back with heavy shopping was the problem," said Elstree county councillor Brian York, who took up the case for them.

"We are talking about very elderly people in some cases. They had to walk back quite a way once they had been dropped off at the stop."

The bus stop was put up outside Summerswood School, 250 metres away from pensioners' homes.

But now after campaigning by residents with the help of Mr York, transport chiefs have relented and agreed to move the bus stop closer to the sheltered accommodation.

Spencer Robeson, head of Hertfordshire's passenger transport unit, said that a temporary bus stop had been placed opposite Oak Farm.

He anticipated it would be made permanent shortly.

The Borehamwood bus service, which is operated by the Shires bus company, is subsidised by the county council for evening and weekend services.

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